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6 <title>Release 14.12 (“Caterpillar”, 2014/12/30)</title>
7
8 <para>
9 In addition to numerous new and upgraded packages, this release has the
10 following highlights:
11 <itemizedlist>
12 <listitem>
13 <para>
14 Systemd has been updated to version 217, which has numerous
15 <link xlink:href="http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2014-October/024662.html">improvements.</link>
16 </para>
17 </listitem>
18 <listitem>
19 <para>
20 <link xlink:href="http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.nixos/15165">
21 Nix has been updated to 1.8.</link>
22 </para>
23 </listitem>
24 <listitem>
25 <para>
26 NixOS is now based on Glibc 2.20.
27 </para>
28 </listitem>
29 <listitem>
30 <para>
31 KDE has been updated to 4.14.
32 </para>
33 </listitem>
34 <listitem>
35 <para>
36 The default Linux kernel has been updated to 3.14.
37 </para>
38 </listitem>
39 <listitem>
40 <para>
41 If <option>users.mutableUsers</option> is enabled (the default), changes
42 made to the declaration of a user or group will be correctly realised when
43 running <command>nixos-rebuild</command>. For instance, removing a user
44 specification from <filename>configuration.nix</filename> will cause the
45 actual user account to be deleted. If <option>users.mutableUsers</option>
46 is disabled, it is no longer necessary to specify UIDs or GIDs; if
47 omitted, they are allocated dynamically.
48 </para>
49 </listitem>
50 </itemizedlist>
51 </para>
52
53 <para>
54 Following new services were added since the last release:
55 <itemizedlist>
56 <listitem>
57 <para>
58 <literal>atftpd</literal>
59 </para>
60 </listitem>
61 <listitem>
62 <para>
63 <literal>bosun</literal>
64 </para>
65 </listitem>
66 <listitem>
67 <para>
68 <literal>bspwm</literal>
69 </para>
70 </listitem>
71 <listitem>
72 <para>
73 <literal>chronos</literal>
74 </para>
75 </listitem>
76 <listitem>
77 <para>
78 <literal>collectd</literal>
79 </para>
80 </listitem>
81 <listitem>
82 <para>
83 <literal>consul</literal>
84 </para>
85 </listitem>
86 <listitem>
87 <para>
88 <literal>cpuminer-cryptonight</literal>
89 </para>
90 </listitem>
91 <listitem>
92 <para>
93 <literal>crashplan</literal>
94 </para>
95 </listitem>
96 <listitem>
97 <para>
98 <literal>dnscrypt-proxy</literal>
99 </para>
100 </listitem>
101 <listitem>
102 <para>
103 <literal>docker-registry</literal>
104 </para>
105 </listitem>
106 <listitem>
107 <para>
108 <literal>docker</literal>
109 </para>
110 </listitem>
111 <listitem>
112 <para>
113 <literal>etcd</literal>
114 </para>
115 </listitem>
116 <listitem>
117 <para>
118 <literal>fail2ban</literal>
119 </para>
120 </listitem>
121 <listitem>
122 <para>
123 <literal>fcgiwrap</literal>
124 </para>
125 </listitem>
126 <listitem>
127 <para>
128 <literal>fleet</literal>
129 </para>
130 </listitem>
131 <listitem>
132 <para>
133 <literal>fluxbox</literal>
134 </para>
135 </listitem>
136 <listitem>
137 <para>
138 <literal>gdm</literal>
139 </para>
140 </listitem>
141 <listitem>
142 <para>
143 <literal>geoclue2</literal>
144 </para>
145 </listitem>
146 <listitem>
147 <para>
148 <literal>gitlab</literal>
149 </para>
150 </listitem>
151 <listitem>
152 <para>
153 <literal>gitolite</literal>
154 </para>
155 </listitem>
156 <listitem>
157 <para>
158 <literal>gnome3.gnome-documents</literal>
159 </para>
160 </listitem>
161 <listitem>
162 <para>
163 <literal>gnome3.gnome-online-miners</literal>
164 </para>
165 </listitem>
166 <listitem>
167 <para>
168 <literal>gnome3.gvfs</literal>
169 </para>
170 </listitem>
171 <listitem>
172 <para>
173 <literal>gnome3.seahorse</literal>
174 </para>
175 </listitem>
176 <listitem>
177 <para>
178 <literal>hbase</literal>
179 </para>
180 </listitem>
181 <listitem>
182 <para>
183 <literal>i2pd</literal>
184 </para>
185 </listitem>
186 <listitem>
187 <para>
188 <literal>influxdb</literal>
189 </para>
190 </listitem>
191 <listitem>
192 <para>
193 <literal>kubernetes</literal>
194 </para>
195 </listitem>
196 <listitem>
197 <para>
198 <literal>liquidsoap</literal>
199 </para>
200 </listitem>
201 <listitem>
202 <para>
203 <literal>lxc</literal>
204 </para>
205 </listitem>
206 <listitem>
207 <para>
208 <literal>mailpile</literal>
209 </para>
210 </listitem>
211 <listitem>
212 <para>
213 <literal>mesos</literal>
214 </para>
215 </listitem>
216 <listitem>
217 <para>
218 <literal>mlmmj</literal>
219 </para>
220 </listitem>
221 <listitem>
222 <para>
223 <literal>monetdb</literal>
224 </para>
225 </listitem>
226 <listitem>
227 <para>
228 <literal>mopidy</literal>
229 </para>
230 </listitem>
231 <listitem>
232 <para>
233 <literal>neo4j</literal>
234 </para>
235 </listitem>
236 <listitem>
237 <para>
238 <literal>nsd</literal>
239 </para>
240 </listitem>
241 <listitem>
242 <para>
243 <literal>openntpd</literal>
244 </para>
245 </listitem>
246 <listitem>
247 <para>
248 <literal>opentsdb</literal>
249 </para>
250 </listitem>
251 <listitem>
252 <para>
253 <literal>openvswitch</literal>
254 </para>
255 </listitem>
256 <listitem>
257 <para>
258 <literal>parallels-guest</literal>
259 </para>
260 </listitem>
261 <listitem>
262 <para>
263 <literal>peerflix</literal>
264 </para>
265 </listitem>
266 <listitem>
267 <para>
268 <literal>phd</literal>
269 </para>
270 </listitem>
271 <listitem>
272 <para>
273 <literal>polipo</literal>
274 </para>
275 </listitem>
276 <listitem>
277 <para>
278 <literal>prosody</literal>
279 </para>
280 </listitem>
281 <listitem>
282 <para>
283 <literal>radicale</literal>
284 </para>
285 </listitem>
286 <listitem>
287 <para>
288 <literal>redmine</literal>
289 </para>
290 </listitem>
291 <listitem>
292 <para>
293 <literal>riemann</literal>
294 </para>
295 </listitem>
296 <listitem>
297 <para>
298 <literal>scollector</literal>
299 </para>
300 </listitem>
301 <listitem>
302 <para>
303 <literal>seeks</literal>
304 </para>
305 </listitem>
306 <listitem>
307 <para>
308 <literal>siproxd</literal>
309 </para>
310 </listitem>
311 <listitem>
312 <para>
313 <literal>strongswan</literal>
314 </para>
315 </listitem>
316 <listitem>
317 <para>
318 <literal>tcsd</literal>
319 </para>
320 </listitem>
321 <listitem>
322 <para>
323 <literal>teamspeak3</literal>
324 </para>
325 </listitem>
326 <listitem>
327 <para>
328 <literal>thermald</literal>
329 </para>
330 </listitem>
331 <listitem>
332 <para>
333 <literal>torque/mrom</literal>
334 </para>
335 </listitem>
336 <listitem>
337 <para>
338 <literal>torque/server</literal>
339 </para>
340 </listitem>
341 <listitem>
342 <para>
343 <literal>uhub</literal>
344 </para>
345 </listitem>
346 <listitem>
347 <para>
348 <literal>unifi</literal>
349 </para>
350 </listitem>
351 <listitem>
352 <para>
353 <literal>znc</literal>
354 </para>
355 </listitem>
356 <listitem>
357 <para>
358 <literal>zookeeper</literal>
359 </para>
360 </listitem>
361 </itemizedlist>
362 </para>
363
364 <para>
365 When upgrading from a previous release, please be aware of the following
366 incompatible changes:
367 <itemizedlist>
368 <listitem>
369 <para>
370 The default version of Apache httpd is now 2.4. If you use the
371 <option>extraConfig</option> option to pass literal Apache configuration
372 text, you may need to update it — see
373 <link
374xlink:href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html">Apache’s
375 documentation</link> for details. If you wish to continue to use httpd
376 2.2, add the following line to your NixOS configuration:
377<programlisting>
378services.httpd.package = pkgs.apacheHttpd_2_2;
379</programlisting>
380 </para>
381 </listitem>
382 <listitem>
383 <para>
384 PHP 5.3 has been removed because it is no longer supported by the PHP
385 project. A <link
386xlink:href="http://php.net/migration54">migration
387 guide</link> is available.
388 </para>
389 </listitem>
390 <listitem>
391 <para>
392 The host side of a container virtual Ethernet pair is now called
393 <literal>ve-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal> rather
394 than <literal>c-<replaceable>container-name</replaceable></literal>.
395 </para>
396 </listitem>
397 <listitem>
398 <para>
399 GNOME 3.10 support has been dropped. The default GNOME version is now
400 3.12.
401 </para>
402 </listitem>
403 <listitem>
404 <para>
405 VirtualBox has been upgraded to 4.3.20 release. Users may be required to
406 run <command>rm -rf /tmp/.vbox*</command>. The line <literal>imports = [
407 <nixpkgs/nixos/modules/programs/virtualbox.nix> ]</literal> is no
408 longer necessary, use <literal>services.virtualboxHost.enable =
409 true</literal> instead.
410 </para>
411 <para>
412 Also, hardening mode is now enabled by default, which means that unless
413 you want to use USB support, you no longer need to be a member of the
414 <literal>vboxusers</literal> group.
415 </para>
416 </listitem>
417 <listitem>
418 <para>
419 Chromium has been updated to 39.0.2171.65.
420 <option>enablePepperPDF</option> is now enabled by default.
421 <literal>chromium*Wrapper</literal> packages no longer exist, because
422 upstream removed NSAPI support. <literal>chromium-stable</literal> has
423 been renamed to <literal>chromium</literal>.
424 </para>
425 </listitem>
426 <listitem>
427 <para>
428 Python packaging documentation is now part of nixpkgs manual. To override
429 the python packages available to a custom python you now use
430 <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.buildEnv.override</literal> instead of
431 <literal>pkgs.pythonFull.override</literal>.
432 </para>
433 </listitem>
434 <listitem>
435 <para>
436 <literal>boot.resumeDevice = "8:6"</literal> is no longer supported. Most
437 users will want to leave it undefined, which takes the swap partitions
438 automatically. There is an evaluation assertion to ensure that the string
439 starts with a slash.
440 </para>
441 </listitem>
442 <listitem>
443 <para>
444 The system-wide default timezone for NixOS installations changed from
445 <literal>CET</literal> to <literal>UTC</literal>. To choose a different
446 timezone for your system, configure <literal>time.timeZone</literal> in
447 <literal>configuration.nix</literal>. A fairly complete list of possible
448 values for that setting is available at
449 <link
450xlink:href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tz_database_time_zones"/>.
451 </para>
452 </listitem>
453 <listitem>
454 <para>
455 GNU screen has been updated to 4.2.1, which breaks the ability to connect
456 to sessions created by older versions of screen.
457 </para>
458 </listitem>
459 <listitem>
460 <para>
461 The Intel GPU driver was updated to the 3.x prerelease version (used by
462 most distributions) and supports DRI3 now.
463 </para>
464 </listitem>
465 </itemizedlist>
466 </para>
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